Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On February 16, 1948, the Dutch-American astronomer Gerard Kuiper discovered Miranda, a moon of Uranus. [‘On This Day in Space’ ...

Miranda does not look like a typical small moon. The surface, seen in detail only once during Voyager 2’s flyby in 1986, carries scars that seem out of scale with its size. Wide fault systems cut ...